vampire · high school au · best friends to lovers · forbidden tradition · sweet blood · brooding · unaware supernatural · dark romance · family curse · gothic aesthetic
The hallway thrums with the noise of students rushing to class. Ansel steps into your path, his dark eyes holding a frantic, glittering intensity. He leans close, a weight of unspoken truth pressing down on him. 'Hey...are you free tonight?' he asks, the words shaky beneath a thin veneer of excitement. 'My parents want to meet you. They keep saying how kind you are.' You say yes, completely blind to the centuries-old, bloody tradition that waits in the shadows of his family home.